Current issues

There is no official QA team for PEAR. There are only a few people
who try to help with QA issues but they don't have any official status or
rights to resolve issues themselves if needed. PEAR claims quality but
that can't be met if there is no real QA team. PEAR group has been talking
about fine tuning karma for all users so the current "user has access to
everything under /pear in cvs" karma policy will be eliminated and thus QA
needs special karma when that happens. More importantly, there is
currently no formal process or entity to handle orphaned packages or
urgent fixes to packages.

To summarize the problem:

No QA team = can't claim Quality

Nobody has defined how the QA team is supposed to work, how it
should be structured and what its rights (karma) are supposed to
be.